Honorary Canadians

Honorary Canadians

This room is dedicated to the artists who, while not born here, made a meaningful mark on Canadian music. Whether they came to record, perform, collaborate, or simply found inspiration on Canadian soil, these Honorary Canadians became part of the story. Some stayed briefly, others put down roots—but all contributed to the cultural fabric in unique ways. From one-off sessions to lasting legacies, this is a salute to the outsiders who felt right at home in Canada.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Jonathan Edwards Weapon of Prayer Sailboat
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm a Song I'm a Song
David Amram Greasy Spoon Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Buddy Knox Mary Lou ST
Joe* Glazer We Shall Not Be Moved A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Joe* Glazer The Farmer is the Man A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Honky Tonk Angel
Ernie* Smith Money Can't Buy Life Skareggae
Buddy Knox I Ain't Sharin' Sharon ST (mono)
Oscar* McLollie So Pleasing Loving You So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Buddy Knox Rock Around the Clock ST
Loni Gamble Nightime Kind of Love ST
Jonathan Edwards People Get Ready Sailboat
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* I Will Go Into The Distant Mountains Ukrainian Pops
Buddy Knox Long Lonely Nights ST (mono)
Mike* Ferro Soldier In The Rain Bridges b/w Soldier In The Rain
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Boots Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Jonathan Edwards Let the Rough Side Drag Sailboat
Priscilla* Rollins Softer Moments Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Hanging Apple Висить Ябко Ukrainian Pops
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Two Little Oaks On a Mountain Ukrainian Pops
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Show and Tell Love Serenade
Zambonis* Let's Go Whalers To Bleed Black and Gold
Loni Gamble Circles ST
Exponians Yellow Bird Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Livin' the Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) (There's a Lot of Different Kind of) People in the World Love Serenade
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra It Only Takes a Moment And I Love Her
Aarons And Ackley* There Is A Lady ST
Ellen McIlwaine Love and Devotion Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine (I Gotta) Ramble Just Like You Ellen McIlwaine
Jack Holland I'll Pick Her Up The Eyes of a Dreamer
Aarons And Ackley* Swanee Song ST
Tony McManus Chalaneru The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
The Revelaires* Great Pretender Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Take Twenty Love Serenade
Alpha Centauri Make it at Rock 'n' Roll ST
Nelson* Riddle Moving Ahead British Columbia Suite
Ernie* Smith Freedom Street Skareggae
Ernie* Smith Time To Behold Jah
Oscar* McLollie Buried Alive ST
David Amram Alfred the Hog Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Ellen McIlwaine Keep On Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine We Got Each Other Ellen McIlwaine
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Love Serenade Love Serenade
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Aarons And Ackley* Bonnie Blue You And I
Ernie* Smith Freedom To Behold Jah
Matt Lucas* The Last Song Matt Gets Blue
Priscilla* Rollins Cry Cry Baby Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Wings of a Horse Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Buddy Knox C'mon Baby ST (mono)
Ellen McIlwaine All to You Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ernie* Smith Take Your Time To Behold Jah
Ernie* Smith Don't Down Me Now To Behold Jah
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Needs It Everybody Needs It
Ursa Major* Sinner ST
Albert Jones* I Feel So Good The Facts of Life
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Traditional 'Trojista' Music Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* I Need You Amist the Black Eyes
Ellen McIlwaine Farther Along We the People
Buddy Knox Devil Woman ST
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Polissian Polka 'Mazury' Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Oscar* McLollie Girl of Mine ST
Ellen McIlwaine The Last Good Man in My Life Ellen McIlwaine
Jonathan Edwards Sailboat Sailboat
Joe* Glazer New Democratic Party Train A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Dick Marx Orchestra and Choir* Here Come the Hawks Here Come the Hawks b/w Here Come the Hawks (instrumental) (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine You May be All I Need Ellen McIlwaine
Zambonis* Mind Like a Playgroup To Bleed Black and Gold
Aarons And Ackley* Sleeping Gypsy ST
Cal* Bostic Let Me Love You Introducing...
Priscilla* Rollins Mama You Treat Your Daughter Mean Lover's Choice Vol. 1
David Amram Old Man and the Children Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Halya Carries the Water Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Loni Gamble It's You ST
Country Mcdonald Joe* Jean Desprez War War War
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Hard Days Night And I Love Her
Ursa Major* Stage Door Queen ST
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Hopeton* Lewis Story Book Children Think Positive // Story Book Children
Matt Lucas* Vibrator Blues Matt Gets Blue
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Jakiv Came to Visit Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Oscar* McLollie Help Me Make It Through the Night ST
Ernie* Smith Ska Medley: Jamaica Ska; Humpty Dumpty; A Little More Oil; Six And Seven Books; Oh Manny Oh Skareggae
David Amram Little Momma Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Ellen McIlwaine It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Aarons And Ackley* Truly You And I
Matt Lucas* The Nuthouse Matt Gets Blue
Exponians My Peaceful World Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Jonathan Edwards How About You Sailboat
Cal* Bostic There You Are Introducing...
Ellen McIlwaine Steal Him Away Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play We the People
Loni Gamble In love for the First Time ST
Ellen McIlwaine Lover's Lane Ellen McIlwaine

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - Matt Gets Blue

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Ursa Major* - ST

New York, New York, U.S.A.

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Ellen McIlwaine

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Country Mcdonald Joe* - War War War

Washington, DC, USA

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Amist the Black Eyes

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Shirley Lewis Show Band

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* - I'm a Song

Birmingham, England, UK→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cal* Bostic - Introducing...

Anniston, Alabama, 🇺🇸→Port Arthur, Ontario, 🇨🇦→Erie, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Aarons And Ackley* - ST

Portland, Oregon, 🇺🇸 (Jim Ackley); Cleveland, Ohio, 🇺🇸 (Chuck Aarons) - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tommy Makem - Vancouver b/w Better Times

Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - ST

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

David Amram - Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸*

FEATURED

Bluebird* - Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost

Mercer Island, Washington, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Loni Gamble - ST

Philadelphia, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Dave Gordon & Kay* - I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

FEATURED

Albert Jones* - The Facts of Life

Gary, Indiana, 🇺🇸 - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Alpha Centauri - ST

Priscilla* Rollins - Lover's Choice Vol. 1

Nassau, Bahamas - Toronto, Ontario

Eddie* Murray - Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance

You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

The Revelaires (3)

The Revelaires (2)

The Revelaires

The Revelaires You're So Wrong (1)

The Revelaires Great Pre (1)

Matt Gets Blue

ST

Ursa Major - ST Side 2

Ursa Major - ST Side 1

Ursa Major - ST BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Honky Tonk Angel

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 02

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 01

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Everybody Needs It

We the People

Fear Itself

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (5)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (8)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (7)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (4)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (3)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (3)

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